Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Barclay Hotel is a historic hotel in Downtown Los Angeles, California. Located at the corner of 4th Street and Main Street, it was originally owned by real estate developer Isaac Newton Van Nuys and opened as the Van Nuys Hotel in 1897. The six-story building was designed by architecture firm Morgan and Walls in the Beaux-Arts style.
Wilshire Grand Center is a 1,100-foot (335.3 m) skyscraper in the financial district of downtown Los Angeles, California, occupying the entire city block between Wilshire Boulevard and 7th, Figueroa, and Francisco streets. Completed in 2017, it is the tallest building west of Chicago. Though the structural top (in this case, the spire) of the ...
The late- Victorian-era Downtown of Los Angeles in 1880 was centered at the southern end of the Los Angeles Plaza area, and over the next two decades, it extended south and west along Main Street, Spring Street, and Broadway towards Third Street. Most of the 19th-century buildings no longer exist, surviving only in the Plaza area or south of ...
Downtown Los Angeles (DTLA) is the central business district of Los Angeles.It is part of the Central Los Angeles region and covers a 5.84 sq mi (15.1 km 2) [3] area. As of 2020, it contains over 500,000 jobs and has a population of roughly 85,000 residents, [4] with an estimated daytime population of over 200,000 people prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. [5]
September 21, 1962 [ 2] The Bradbury Building is an architectural landmark in downtown Los Angeles, California, United States. Built in 1893, [ 1] the five-story office building is best known for its extraordinary skylit atrium of access walkways, stairs and elevators, and their ornate ironwork. The building was commissioned by Los Angeles gold ...
Forster Block, 122–128 S. Main St. (post-1890 numbering), 22–28 S. Main St. (per-1890 numbering), was a two-story building built in the early 1880s, five doors south of the Grand Opera House. It housed a coffee house of the Women's Christian Temperance Union at #26, heavily damaged in an 1885 fire, and a saddlery.
Downtown Los Angeles: 795: Santa Fe Inbound Freight House: 355 S. Santa Fe Downtown Los Angeles: 806: Kerckoff Building and Annex: 558–564 S. Main St. Downtown Los Angeles: 825: Chinatown West Gate: 954 N. Hill St. Chinatown: West gate into New Chinatown, which was founded in 1938 by Chinese-Americans after they were relocated from their site ...
It was a 555-room hotel. [1] Later, the hotel turned into a low-rent apartment building. [3] It was acquired by JCG Financial Co., [3] followed by Sunday Inn Inc.. [4] When they tried to evict the tenants and turn it into a luxury hotel again in 1979, the tenants filed a lawsuit accusing them of harassment and won. [3]